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Run Maya with a Japanese user interface
Running Maya in Japanese
Prepare Maya files containing Japanese text
Run Maya in English within a Japanese environment
Many existing Japanese users of Maya may already
be comfortable working within the English language user interface
of Maya.
If you’re working on a Windows operating system
with a Japanese language environment and want to use Maya in English,
you can do so by setting the MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE environment
variable.
To
run Maya in English within a Japanese environment (Windows)
- Right-click
on the My Computer icon on the Windows
Desktop, and select Properties from the drop-down
list that appears.
- In
the System Properties window, click the
Advanced tab.
- Click
the Environment Variables button.
The User and System environment variables window appears.
- In
the User variables for <userlogin> section,
click New.
- In
the Variable Name text field type: MAYA_UI_LANGUAGE
- In
the Variable Value text field type: en_US
- Launch
Maya.
NoteIf you later want to run Maya in Japanese
you can set User Environment Variable Value to ja_JP or remove the variable from the
list of User Environment Variables.
To
run Maya in English within a Japanese environment (Mac OS X)
- Temporarily
set the language to English within International preferences section
of the Systems Preferences.